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All together now: Conductor Tran Vuong Thach will lead the Ha Noi Philharmonic Orchestra for its concert Giai Dieu Mua Xuan (The Rhythm of Spring).
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Three's company: The jazz trio of Nguyen Tuan Nam, Dao Minh Pha and Nguyen Hung Cuong will perform a spring concert. — File Photos | |
HA NOI — The Ha Noi Opera House hosts two spring concerts this week.
Nguyen Tuan Nam's jazz trio will perform a concert tonight, sponsored by the Viet Nam National Academy of Music. Pianist Nam, double bassist Dao Minh Pha and drummer Nguyen Hung Cuong decided to name their concert after the Alan Bergman-Jacques Demy tune You Must Believe in Spring.
Nam returned home last year, after earning an diploma in jazz piano from the Malmo Music Institute in Sweden, to become a lecturer with the Viet Nam National Music Academy's accordion-guitar-jazz faculty.
Nam performed You Must Believe in Spring for the first time in Sweden, he says. It was the beginning of spring, and the curtains of the theatre were pulled back to let in the weak sunlight of spring. At his piano, Nam looked out and realised the snow was thawing, trees were budding and that spring was arriving. At that moment, he wished to one day have the opportunity to play the song at home.
The trio will also perform songs by Sammy Cahn, Keith Jarrett and Kenny Barron in keeping with the springtime theme, as well as two original compositions by Nam.
In another concert tomorrow night, violinist Tran Quang Duy, soprano Lan Anh and baritone Phuc Tiep will be accompanied by the Ha Noi Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Tran Vuong Thach for a programme called Giai Dieu Mua Xuan (The Rhythm of Spring).
The musicians will perform Strauss' Voice of Spring, Mozart's Halellujah Aria and Gypsy Air by P. Sarazate.
Duy was born in 1986 began his studies at the Ha Noi National Academy of Music in 1996, before joining Vietnamese and international orchestras such as the Ha Noi Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra. Duy has won many prizes for violin at home and abroad.
Thach, 50, was granted the Excellent Artist title in 2007. He has studied in the Netherlands and Belgium, and performed around the world. He currently works as a director of HCM City Ballet Symphony and Opera Theatre.
Tickets for the concerts are available at the Ha Noi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street, Ha Noi. — VNS